City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1793 - 30th December 1793

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City and Liberty
of Westminster ,
in the County of
Middlesex }
to wit.


An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the Dwelling House of William Jars< no role > in the Strand in the Parish of St. Martins in the Fields Known by the Sign of the Horse -Shoe
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the twenty fifth day of January 1793 in the thirty third
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of
Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before Anthony
Gell
< no role > , Esq . Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of a Ann Jelly< no role > then and there lying dead, upon
the Oath of Joseph Greensill< no role > , Robert Dunkarton< no role > , Henry Thomson< no role > , John Farbam< no role >
Andrew Oliver< no role > , William Payne< no role > , James Wilson< no role > , Robert Frisley< no role > , William
Barrell,
< no role > John Higgins< no role > William Osborn< no role > , William Sheffield< no role > , Robert
Sewell
< no role > , George Riebecca< no role > , Robert Berry< no role > and Robert Salmon< no role >
good and lawful Men of the Said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Ann Jolly< no role > came to
her Death, do upon their Oath Say that the said Ann Jolly< no role > not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding, but Lunatic and distracted on the twenty third day of
January in the Year aforesaid, at the Parish and in the Liberty aforesaid, one End of a
certain Piece of Ribband unto the Upper part of a Large Safe or Cupboard in the Lodging Room
or Apartment of her the said Ann Jolly< no role > in the Dwelling House of Mr. Hodgson, Confectioner in the
Strand aforesaid, and the other End thereof about her own heck, did fix, tye, and fasten & therein
did then and there hang suffocate, and strangle herself, Of which said hanging Suffocation,
and Strangling, she the said Ann Jolly< no role > then and there died. And so the Juror aforesaid
upon their Oath aforesaid, do say, that the said Ann Jolly< no role > , not being of
sound Mind, Memory, and Understanding, but Lunatic and distracted,
in manner and by the Means aforesaid, did kill herself

In Witness when of aswell the said Coroner
as the said Jurors have to this Inquisition set their Hands and
Seals the Day, Year and Place above written.

Anthy. Gell< no role > Coroner
Foreman
Joseph Greenside< no role >
Robt. Dunkenton< no role >
Keny Thompson< no role >
John Farlam< no role >

Mr. Oliver
Wm. Baipe< no role >
Jas. Wilson< no role >
Robt. Frisley< no role >
Mr. Barrett
John Higgins< no role >
William Osborn< no role >

Willm. Sheffield< no role >
Robert Swell< no role >
George Rieban< no role >
Robert Barry< no role >
Robt. Satmers< no role >




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